A HOLOCAUST survivor known as the Bride of Belsen after marrying one of the British soldiers who liberated the concentration camp in 1945 has died aged 95.

Gena Turgel was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1923 and lost most of her family after the Nazi invasion in 1939.

The Holocaust Educational Trust yesterday said she “tirelessly” shared her story to ensure the “horrors of the Holocaust are never forgotten”.

Mrs Turgel, the youngest of nine children, was 16 when the Nazis invaded. She hid in Krakow’s ghetto with her mother and four siblings.

One brother was shot by the SS, a second fled and was never seen again. She and her surviving family were eventually sent to Plaszow labour camp on the edge of Krakow before being made to walk to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the winter of 1944.

In January of the following year Mrs Turgel and her mother spent four weeks on a “death march” to another concentration camp, Buchenwald, before being taken by cattle train to Bergen-Belsen.

She worked in the hospital there and nursed Anne Frank, whose diaries found international fame, as the 15-year-old was dying from typhus.